Every manly icon the West has ever admired has embodied…

Without Virginia, as we must all acknowledge--without her Patrick Henry among the people, her Lees and Jefferson in the forum, and her Washington in…

— Robert Charles Winthrop

“Ironically, the organization modeled itself on the Communist Party. Stealth and subterfuge were endemic. Membership was kept secret. Fighting “dirty” was justified internally, as…

— Jane Mayer

Maharashtrians in America have a Maharashtra mandal every year. You know when they celebrate it? On July 4, the American Independence Day. That's respect…

— Raj Thackeray

Appalachia is still, for American musicians, a kind of fountain of youth we always go back to, the old home place to a group…

— Paul Burch

Here was buried Thomas Jefferson Author of the Declaration of American Independence Of the Statute of Virginia for religious freedom & Father of the…

— Thomas Jefferson

“John Adams, by then one of the country's founding fathers, wrote to a friend: "I know not why we should blush to confess that…

— Tom Standage

“May it [American independence] be to the world, what I believe it will be, (to some parts sooner, to others later, but finally to…

— Thomas Jefferson

“On the first day of the meeting that would become known as the United States Constitutional Convention, Edmund Randolph of Virginia kicked off the…

— William Hogeland

“Here was buried Thomas Jefferson, author of the Declaration of American Independence, of the Statute of Virginia for Religious Freedom, and Father of the…

— Thomas Jefferson

“He admired her for throwing off her aristocratic shackles -- his terms, that -- and making her own way in the world. He didn't…

— Lauren Willig

Give up the belief that mind is, even temporarily, compressed within the skull, and you will quickly become more manly or womanly. You will…

— Mary Baker Eddy

Think about it. He drinks poison. What kind of man drinks poison? She is the one who stabs herself with his dagger. The manly…

— Anne Fortier

By experience; by a sense of human frailty; by a perception of "the soul of goodness in things evil;" by a cheerful trust in…

— Frederick William Robertson

Self-negation is noble, self-culture beneficent, self-possession is manly, but to the truly great and inspiring soul they are poor and tame compared with self-abuse.

— Pope Julius II

Girly’ products can spur Japan’s growth in this century every bit as much as, if not more than, the ‘manly’ technologies.

— Morinosuke Kawaguchi